madrox17
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What is the point of this rant? Tesla makes 100% of their own interiors and they have the option to make 100% black seats or 100% white seats on any given day. If they so choose, they can fabricate white seats for the next 4 months straight. They have been offering white interiors on their vehicles for at least 2 or 3 years. I'm not sure why you feel this is a problem for them. Are you a day 1 reservation holder who has been waiting on your MR car for the last 1,000 days? You can verify that you put your deposit down in 3/31/2016 for an MR that didn't exist and now you are venting about a production correlation you cannot prove exists ?
Also, why are you incorrectly claiming in your other rant that you lose $7,500 at year end? It goes to $3,750 not $0 at year end.
You are aware that you ordered a vehicle configuration that had NEVER been produced right? With a battery pack that had NEVER been fabricated.... with a drivetrain or parts that are NOT in any other existing model currently right.
If I were you, I wouldn't want to be the guinea pig getting the first beta models of the MR anyway. Wouldn't you prefer the factory workers making $15 or $20/hour train on a few other cars before they do yours ?
Just to make your battery pack work, someone has to code an entirely new fork in the battery management software, vet it, test it and get it ready for production. Literally speaking, this is more detailed work than your local hospital setting your arm bone when it is fractured.
If you have a Motor Vehicle Purchase Agreement that says you will get your MR with white seats, you will get your MR with white seats. It seems to me that the cars "available" are mostly AWD or AWD performance with white interior that have been produced in "spec" batches for inventory and placed around the country. Everything else appears to be custom ordered.
I suspect Tesla probably received 100,000 overseas reservations in the past week alone. They are doing everyone in the USA a 'favor' by not just selling high margin cars overseas.
I ordered a LR on 10/15/18, but switched to a MR on 10/19 when it was announced as 6-10 weeks delivery with more than 10 weeks to go in the year. Just a few days ago the CEO promised that cars ordered still in the future will be delivered by year end. They market the price of the car most prominently on the order page as including the $7,500 tax credit. The longer they wait to batch white in favor of black, the more likely unforeseen delays in delivery (very common according to this forum, especially at quarter end) will bump many of us from receiving in 2018. That's just a plain fact.
I'm not concerned about the MR battery pack, as the car will be under warranty for several years. With that reasoning, EVERYONE who has ordered a Model 3 to date is insane because this technology isn't proven yet.
I fully understood when I ordered the car when I did that it was nearing the end of the tax credit. I'm fully prepared for the worst, and yes, it is a difference between $7,500 and $0 for me, as a $3,750 tax credit that I won't be able to claim until January of 2020 does not work for my situation. I've got to send $7,500 off to the federal government if I don't take delivery by Dec 31, so for me it is a binary choice. I'd rather use that money towards this car.
The lack of communication has me (and many, many others on here) stressed. That was the point of the rant.
Not sure why you come into a waiting room thread and attack us for being anxious? Whatever life we don't have for being here, you have a little bit less...lol